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their pay to the rest of the souldiers, two of my souldiers 
are runne away with their horse and arms. I rest, and 
commit you to God. Your loving Cousin. 
Edward Kightley.” 
" Ihave, amongst the few tracts that I possess relating to 
the Civil Wars in Warwickshire, one entitled, ‘‘ A true and 
exact Relation of a Battell fought upon Monday last, be- 
tweene His Majesties forces and the Earle of Essex, with 
the overthrow given to the Cavaliers.” 
“ Also a notable politick device of the Earle of Essex, 
who in private left his armie to view the armie of Prince 
Rupert and to see their works. London: Printed for John 
Hanson, Novemb. 4, 1642.” 
This is a complete catchpenny production. It contains 
no information whatever, and the “ politick device” of the 
Earl of Essex was purely imaginary. 
In “A Letter sent from a worthy Divine to the Right 
Honourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London. Being 
a true Relation of the Battell fought between his Majesties 
forces and his Excellencie the Earle of Essex,” from War- 
wick Castle, the 24 of October, 1642, at two o’clock in the 
morning. 
“Sir.—Yesterday being the Lords day, his Excellency 
intending to march from Keinton, a little villiage in 
Warwickshire, towards Banbury to relieve it, unexpectedly 
an alarm came about eight o’clock in the morning, that 
the Enemy was advancing within two or three miles 
which accordingly proved so, and it pleased God to make 
myselfe the first Instrument of giving a certaine discovery 
of it, by the helpe of a prospective Glasse from the top of 
an hill; when the two armies were drawn into a Battalia, 
about two of the clock in the afternoone a very sore and 
